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"I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page
but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting
and insightful about creativity and life." --Curtis Sittenfeld
An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King,
the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria
Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and
award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with another instant
New York Times bestseller: an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a
young woman.
Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love
affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997
without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final
notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits
tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a
garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At
thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old
friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When
she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world
fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and
balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways
that push her to the brink.
Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable
protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element
of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor,
heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that
explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one
phase of life and the beginning of another.
